Chapter 9 - Affordable energy-intensive routing using metaheuristics

Abstract

Metaheuristics is a process to generate effective, optimized solutions. An optimized solution requires an efficient decision to carry out network packets from sender to receiver with excellent efficiency. Energy-efficient routing techniques can be developed using metaheuristics to help network packets travel from sender to receiver in less time with low power consumption. Low power consumption minimizes the node-to-node transfer of packets using a minimum of resources and enhances the life span of the network cycle. Metaheuristics provide a great optimized solution by finding an optimized path for the packet transfer and minimizing the node-to-node transfer, thus resulting in less resource consumption. The optimization technique includes various algorithms and several theoretical concepts. Various applications are present to reduce energy consumption, but the efficiency obtained from metaheuristics is more precise and efficient than existing models. In this chapter, we discuss the various methods of efficient packet transfer with low consumption. Adaptive and nonadaptive algorithms are discussed as well as various types of metaheuristics.